The Naval Chronicle Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE NINTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME IX. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, F. R. S.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K. B. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE EDWARD VERNON, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF ROBERT RODDAM, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD HOTHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN ELLIOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- II A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- III A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- IV A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K. B. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE NINTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME IX. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, F. R. S.
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K. B. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE EDWARD VERNON, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF ROBERT RODDAM, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD HOTHAM, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN ELLIOT, ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
- I A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- II A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- III A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
- IV A List of the Officers in the British Navy, Jan. 1803
Summary
A ray of glory gilds the fatal gloom,
While Fame, exulting o'er the Hero's tomb,
Bids her loud clarion, with eternal breath,
Snatch his immortal name from transient death.
Pye.The subject of our present memoir was the son of a respectable gentleman, of good family, and independent fortune, in the county of Herefordshire. Of the city of Hereford his father was many years an Alderman, and once, if not oftener, Mayor. Our hero was intended for the sea service, and entered early into the Navy, but under what Commanders he served, we have not been able to procure information. On the 25th of August 1740, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant by Admiral Vernon, as a reward for the merit which he had displayed at the capture of Porto Bello. From this time we have no account of him till the year 1747, at which period he continued a Lieutenant, and went out a passenger to Louisbourg in the Warwick, with strong recommendations to Commodore Knowles, who then commanded on that station. As on this passage an event occurred, which afterwards occasioned no small controversy, in which Mr. Hughes bore a share, we shall relate the particulars of it at large.
The Lark, of forty guns, commanded by Captain Crookshanks, and the Warwick, of 60 guns, commanded by Captain Erskine, were ordered to proceed with a convoy to Louisbourg.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 85 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1803